Marius Joubert died after being bitten by his personal snake. (PHOTO: Supplied)
Inspectors with the SPCA have seen so much over the years – horrible issues, weird issues, issues that will flip your abdomen.
But the scene that confronted them just lately was a primary even for these hardened officers. Cage after cage after cage was stacked one on high of the opposite, every one housing a creature of some sort – and most of these creatures had been lethal snakes.
Bush vipers, swamp vipers, diamondback rattlesnakes, Chinese spitting cobras, yellow anacondas, boomslang – the record went on and on. There was additionally a child Nile crocodile, a savannah monitor lizard, seven inexperienced iguanas, three meerkats (one pregnant), two ferrets and a container of tarantulas.
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